Houlton, Warwickshire
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Houlton is a large housing development to the east of Rugby, Warwickshire, England. It is located between the Rugby suburb of Hillmorton, Warwickshire and Crick, Northamptonshire, west of the A5 road
Completed housing at Houlton
Houlton Bridge as viewed from the Oxford Canal towpath
Rugby Radio Station
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Rugby Radio Station was a large British government radio transmission facility just east of the Hillmorton area of the town of Rugby, Warwickshire in England. The site straddled the A5 trunk road, wit
Houlton, Warwickshire
…and Crick, Northamptonshire, west of the A5 road and M1 motorway. Between 1926 and 2007 the site on which most of the development sits was part of the Rugby Radio Station. It was on this site that the first commercial transatlantic telephone service signal was transmitted in 1927, to the American Telephone and Telegraph…
A view of the tallest masts in 2005.
1922 diagram of the transatlantic radio network.
Strain insulator supporting the cage antenna, 1938
View of the site, 2005